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welcome to amped up this is your host Ryan Knight and our guest today is Afini.

Afini is an organizer with Freedom Fighters DC and a contributor

for Fred Hampton Leftist Network.

Afini, welcome to Ampt Up.

Hi, thank you so much for having me, excited to be here,

excited to share space with you.

Likewise, thank you so much for taking the time.

I know you're busy and you've been doing a lot out there.

You've been on fire out there.

You've been giving me hope.

So I just want to thank you for everything. been giving me hope.

So I just want to thank you for everything

that you are doing on the ground

and with your organizing work and with your message

because it's such a powerful message. I want to start off with, look, Biden and the Democrats are

struggling to pass even the most moderate of reforms during a historic moment of inequality. Let's remember there's no

earth-shaking legislation in the Build Back Better Act. There's no living wage.

There is no transition to clean energy by 2030, there's no student debt cancellation,

there's no reparations, there's no Medicare for all, there's no universal housing, and there's

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